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Developers wanted to port XBMC to PPC

Aug 22, 2008
Team XBMC
Development to port XBMC for Linux to PPC ( PowerPC ) have begun by third-party developers and source code patches for that is available, however these developers are only focusing on XBMC for Linux, not XBMC for Mac (and no one on Team-XBMC even own a PowerPC based...
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XBMC future versioning and codenames

Aug 19, 2008
Team XBMC
The XBMC project have decided to adopt Ubuntu’s Year.Month versioning for all of our future XBMC stable point-releases. This means that if we hold true to the current XBMC roadmap schedule then the next ‘Gold’ release should be released in October 2008 and will thus...
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Scrollback buffer in GNU screen

Aug 18, 2008
Team XBMC
If you enjoy the command prompt in Linux/OS X as much as I do, then I hope you’ve been aquainted with screen. If not, think of it like tabs in your browser. Except now you can go to a different computer and pull up your browser with all those same tabs already opened...
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Can one get to new hardware?

Aug 15, 2008
Team XBMC
Just bought myself a new computer. Not a superpowered one, but a decent (compared to my old). * Abit A-N78HD (with internal GF8200 and HDMI + HD Audio) * 4GB DDR II * 320 GB Harddrive (sata) * DVD/RW (sata) * AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Now to the not so fun part, installation...
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XBMC wins another SourceForge Community Choice Award

Jul 30, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC media center was nominated as a finalist in this years SourceForge Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories, including “ Most Likely to Change the World ” (awarded to Linux ) and “ Best Project for Multimedia ” (awarded to VLC ). The winners...
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Trackers moved from SourceForge to XBMC.org

Jul 21, 2008
Team XBMC
With our recent move to host the xbmc.org website on our own webserver, Team-XBMC have now also taken steps to setup our own tracker-system for XBMC using Trac . Consequently, our previous trackers, which were hosted on SourceForge , has been closed and all bugs,...
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Telematics Freedom Foundation FOSS survey

Jul 21, 2008
Team XBMC
The Telematics Freedom Foundation is currently sponsoring a study about state of the art Media Center projects in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community; “We picked the 10 most prominent FOSS Media Center projects out there and we’re now collecting...
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Vote for XBMC in SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards

Jul 1, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC have received news that the XBMC media center project has been nominated as finalist in the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards (CCA) in no less than seven categories. This is the third annual SourceForge CCA – in the first year XBMC won two of the...
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XBMC Developers Conference 2008

Jun 15, 2008
Team XBMC
Team-XBMC, Team-BOXEE, and bunnie (as the surprise guest speaker)
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Stay tuned!

Jun 7, 2008
Team XBMC
Due to the recent surge of downloads I see the need to reveal some details of the next release that will come out in June: XBMC will be upgradeable via the official XBMC PPAs! it will automount all local hard disk partition it will support writing to NTFS via NTFS-3G...
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Long time no post

May 30, 2008
Team XBMC
Sorry about that, I haven’t been able to blog about any updates in a while, someone came wrong with the system. Hopefully I can keep you all up to date on my workings. Stay tuned for the next release! In the meanwhile keep in mind that these instructions cover LiveXBMC...
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Announcing XBMC DEV CON 2008 hosted by boxee

May 30, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC DEV CON 2008 will be the first event in which the Team-XBMC developers get a chance to get together face-to-face, meet and greet, discuss XBMC, and maybe get a little coding done as well. After 6 years and with so many users, it is time for the Team-XBMC...
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Mac OS X developer has decided to fork our code [UPDATED]

May 22, 2008
Team XBMC
Elan Fieldgold, a developer on Team-XBMC who was working on the Mac OS X port of XBMC have decided to fork our XBMC for Mac version and go out on his own, quiet the XBMC project, and start a new project with its own community for his fork fork. There have been...
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XBMC, a Google Summer of Code 2008 Project

Mar 17, 2008
Team XBMC
XBMC is participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) , which means that we are looking for creative college students who are skilled in the C++ programming language and would be interesting in getting paid by Google to work on new features for XBMC this...
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XBMC recruiting developers for Mac OS X port

Feb 8, 2008
Team XBMC
Help wanted from Mac OS X programmers! As you may or may not know, back in May last year a few developers from Team-XBMC began porting the XBMC media-player application to Linux (and OpenGL using the SDL toolkit ), with the goal of it someday becoming a full port of...
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First Release of LiveXBMC - V20080123

Feb 7, 2008
Team XBMC
Support for Intel GPUs – (XBMC requires high-end GPU) DHCP on eth0 enabled FTP and SSH servers automatically started, FTP needs configuring lircd included, not configured. ivman included (removable media auto-mounting) cool XBMC usplash theme (courtesy of Duduke)...
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New XBMC Website, New Domain (XBMC.ORG)

Feb 7, 2008
Team XBMC
This brand new website has been developed by Granqvist and co-developed by DarkDonno. Chokemaniac made the graphics. It’s been in development for 2 years, and it’s “mostly” finished. Much content is unpolished, incidentally this was why we requested a ‘content master’...
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LiveXBMC Usplash Theme

Feb 7, 2008
Team XBMC
A forum member, Duduke, kindly provided a killer usplash theme for LiveXBMC. Get the source package from Sourceforge !
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Create bootable USB disk on Windows manually

Feb 7, 2008
Team XBMC
I have been experimenting with the creation of bootable flash disk under Windows since it is not a trivial process and I have not identified a simple and effective tool doing the job. There may be several variants, but this one works and it’s easy to describe. You must...
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Happy new year from Team-XBMC!

Dec 24, 2007
Team XBMC
We the members of The XBMC Project hope you all have a great holiday, (no matter if you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa), we wish everyone a happy new year! The XBMC (XBox Media Center) Project will of course continue on next year, hopefully stronger than...
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